10 Perfect Punk Albums That Changed Rock Music History
6. Green Day: Dookie (1994)
Punk hit the scene in a blaze of glory. It was the most exciting and terrifying countercultural movement to ruffle conservatives since Beatlemania. It's short lived moment in the limelight, flickered out with far less of a bang, than it originally hit the scene with, however. Many of the original punk groups simply morphed into post-punk acts, or retreated into the underground.
For the majority of the '80s, the movement survived off the back of indie labels, pushing out records to a dedicated, but relatively small community. The enthusiasm for punk had never been stronger, it was just experienced by far fewer people.
When alt-rock started to make waves at the end of the '80s and early '90s, it was groups like Green Day that helped push a new found interest in the genre. This wasn't the punk of the '70s, with political sentiments of aggressive resentment; it wasn't the fast-paced hardcore sound of the '80s; this was something else entirely.
The music had energy, it sounded almost jovial, but the lyrics revolved around being a bored, disenfranchised ,and somewhat deranged American youth. It was a new sound for a generation, with a new set of issues. After over a decade in exile, Dookie brought punk back to the masses.